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This just sucks all around. Google is a monopolistic miasma of suck, and the current DoJ is a fascist cesspool of suck. No matter the outcome here, I expect the average person will be the loser, and the billionaires will get richer/more access to our data.
There is one possible bright spot. Google could and should, completely open source all parts of Android. Bringing in all the nature handset manufacturers into a Consortium along with Google to guide and maintain the development. No longer having sole control over it. It's Google did that they would still retain some control, and be able to stick it to the current administration, while the average user would now have a fully open source Android that would benefit them. But you're right I don't really see that happening.
We'll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?
That's a good question and something that is not going to be easy to find out. You'd have to figure out who inside Google works on it their hourly pay and how many hours Etc they actually spend on it.